In 2007, the Provincial Government, subject to the development of a MOU with Nalcor Energy, announced an investment of $5 million over multiple years, in the Petroleum Exploration Enhancement Program. The goal of the program was to engage the geoscience community in an effort to advance onshore oil and gas exploration in western Newfoundland.
Please be advised that the technical committee of the Petroleum Exploration Enhancement Program (PEEP) is no longer accepting applications for funding. Remaining funds will be directed towards strategic geoscience data acquisition targeted at attracting exploration activity in Western NL. The committee thanks all proponents for their interest and participation in the program.
Below is a listing of PEEP projects. Please click on the links for more details on a specific project.
Below is a listing of PEEP projects. Please click on the links for more details on a specific project.
- Onshore Western Newfoundland Aeromag Survey.
Gerry Kilfoil, DNR-NL; Lori Cook, DNR-NL - Strata, Source Rock Distribution and Depositional History of the Serpukhovian Rocky Brook Formation.
Elliot Burden, MUN; Michael Kelly, MUN
Final Report
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Strata, structure and selected petrophysical and source rock properties for the Winterhouse Formation, Port au Port Peninsula, Newfoundland and Labrador
Joe MacQuaker, Exxon Mobil, Houston TX; and Elliott Burden, MUN
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - a. Test of the MUNSIST Seismic Source for High Resolution Seismic Imaging in Western NL.
Chuck Hurich, MUN
Final Report
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012
b. MUNSIST acquisition in the Bay St. George area.
Chuck Hurich, MUN
Final Report
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Stratigraphy & Structure Map (1:50000) of Allochthonous Sedimentary Strata North of the Bay of Islands, Western Newfoundland.
Elliot Burden, MUN
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - a. Geo-chemical and Environmental Parameters Affecting Lacustrine Source Rock Properties of the Tournasian Anguille Group (Conche), White Bay Subbasin – Atlantic Conjugate Margin.
Elliott Burden, MUN; Joe McQuaker, MUN; Geoffrey Clayton, Trinity College, Ireland
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012
b. Comparative Analysis of the Source Rock Potential of Lower Carboniferous Anguille Group, Newfoundland, Strathclyde Group Scotland and Albert Formation New Brunswick.
Lucy Newton, MUN; Elliott Burden, MUN; Matt Johnston, MUN
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013 - Origin and nature of hydro-thermal dolomitization and controls on porosity development: implications for the St. George Group carbonates in western Newfoundland, Canada.
Karem Azmy, MUN
Final Reports: 2009, 2010, 2012, 2017, 2022
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013 - Diagenetic history and porosity evolution of Upper Carboniferous sandstone’s in Deer Lake Basin, western Newfoundland.
Karem Azmy, MUN
Final Report: 2014
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Evolution of the Appalachian Foreland Basin and Thrust Front, western Newfoundland.
John Waldron, University of Alberta
Final Report
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Provenance, Distribution and Prospectivity of Potential Shale Gas Units in the Deer Lake and Bay St. George Basins, Western Newfoundland.
Paul Sylvester, MUN
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - The use of integrated fluid inclusion studies in constraining the petroleum charge history at Parsons Pond, western Newfoundland.
James Conliffe, MUN; Elliott Burden, MUN; Derek Wilton, MUN
Final Report - Fluid Inclusion Stratigraphy (FIS)/Photostrat Study, western Newfoundland.
Doug Langton, Fluid Inclusion Technologies Inc.
Final Report (Zip File
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Project Summary - Drill Core Restoration and Transfer.
Larry Hicks, DNR-NL; Karen Waterman, DNR-NL - Lithoprobe Seismic Reprocessing Proposal for Line RR-1 Robinson River area.
Sheldon Handcock, Triumph Atlantic
Final Report - Lithoprobe Seismic Reprocessing Proposal for Lines 1, 2, 3 and 4.
Sheldon Handcock, Triumph Atlantic
Final Report - Fluorescence Microscopy as a Proxy to Determine the Thermal Maturation and APIo Gravity of Naturally Occurring Crude Oils or Oil Inclusions.
Helen Gillespie, MUN; Elliott Burden, MUN; Kirk Osadetz, GSC Calgary
Final Report Part 1
Final Report Part 2 (Zip File)
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Depositional Environments, Ichnology and Reservoir Quality of the Hawke Bay Formation, Port au Port Peninsula.
Duncan McIlroy, MUN; Richard Callow, University of Aberdeen UK; & Liam Herringshaw, Durham University UK.
Final Report
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Evolution and Petroleum Potential of the Appalachian Thrust Front, western Newfoundland.
John Waldron, University of Alberta; Shawna White, University of Alberta
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2012 - Structural and Gravity Study of the Howley Sub-Basin, Western Newfoundland.
Alison Leitch, MUN; Tom Calon, MUN
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013 - Investigation of Data Mining and Data Clustering Techniques for Automatically Generating Proxy Geology Maps from Airborne Geophysical Data.
Colin Farquharson, MUN
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013 - Geophysical and Structural Study of the Howley Sub-Basin, Western Newfoundland (MT & Seismic).
Chuck Hurich, MUN; Colin Farquharson, MUN
Project Summary
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013 - Western Newfoundland Petroleum Geology Scoping Study (co-sponsor RDC)
Elliott Burden, Omnichron Associates Inc.
Final Report – Part 1
Final Report – Western NL Geoscience Database - Deformation History of the Bay St. George Subbasin
John Waldron, University of Alberta
Project Summary - Seafloor Mapping for Onshore/Offshore Bedrock Correlation in Offshore Basins, Western Newfoundland (co-sponsors RDC, OGDP and GSC)
Randy Gillespie, Marine Institute
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013 - Detailed Compositional Analysis of Light Hydrocarbons (C1-C4), Trace Elements and Soil Salts in Western Newfoundland
Gary Thompson, College of the North Atlantic; Derek Wilton, MUN
PEEP Workshop Presentation 2013
Project Summary - Fluid Inclusion Workshop
Derek Wilton, MUN; Martin Feely, National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG)
Fluid Inclusion Workshop Presentation - Petroleum System Analysis of Western Newfoundland
Nicholas Harris and John Waldron, University of Alberta
Final Report
Source Rock Analysis Data
Extract Oil Data
Project Summary - Variations of Redox conditions across the Cambrian-Ordovician GSSP (Green Point Formation) in western Newfoundland
Karem Azmy, MUN
Project Summary - Reservoir quality and porosity evolution of rift-drift and foreland basin sandstone’s, Port au Port Peninsula and Humber Arm areas, western Newfoundland
Dr. Luke Beranek, MUN - Constructing a crustal-scale 3D Earth model for offshore-to-onshore western Newfoundland from seismic reflection, gravity, magnetic and well data
Dr. Kim Welford, MUN - Development of joint gravity-magnetotelluric inversion software and its application to data from the Howley Basin, NL
Dr. Colin Farquharson, MUN
Project Summary - Reservoir quality and porosity evolution of Cambrian and Ordovician rift-drift and foreland basin sandstone’s, western Newfoundland
Dr. Luke Beranek & Dr. Stefanie Lode, MUN
Final Report
Project Summary
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